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A Toronto man has been arrested in connection with a violent west-end home invasion in July which injured two tenants with mental illness, Toronto Police said.

Investigators identified two suspects Fridy and went to arrest one of them in the morning, but the man has been in jail since Aug. 26 on gun and murder-related charges in a separate incident, holdup squad Staff-Insp. Mike Earl said.

Said Egal, 19, of Toronto, faces two counts of robbery, property obtained by crime and weapon dangerous charges.

“He was in custody on other charges,” Earl said. “Tips (from the public) absolutely helped.”

Shortly before 10 p.m. on July 30, a man and a woman entered Louis Romualdi’s basement apartment on Harbord St., near Bathurst St., after they identified themselves as his friends. Romualdi, 57, was entertaining two friends at the time.

The man brandished a knife and held it to Romualdi’s nose, demanding his bank cards, polic said.

The man also punched another tenant who came knocking on the door as the suspects left, and ripped her $500 gold chain off her neck.

Police released surveillance video pictures last Tuesday of the home invasion suspects captured at a Queen St. W. Foot Locker where police said they used Romualdi’s debit and credit cards in a $2,400 spree.

Romualdi said Friday he was relieved police had laid charges.

“I’m worried that someone set me up,” he said. “I’m an easy mark. I’ve been robbed seven or eight times. I still wonder why he did and how he got my name.”

Man arrested in violent home invasion of half-blind man

A Toronto man has been arrested in connection with a violent west-end home invasion in July which injured two tenants with mental illness, Toronto Police said.
Investigators identified two suspects Fridy and went to arrest one of them in the morning, but the man has been in jail since Aug. 26 on gun and murder-related charges in a separate incident, holdup squad Staff-Insp. Mike Earl said.
Said Egal, 19, of Toronto, faces two counts of robbery, property obtained by crime and weapon dangerous charges.
“He was in custody on other charges,” Earl said.